strikes

Philadelphia AFSCME DC 33 worker on the picket line

Philadelphia Municipal Strike Highlights Worsening Plight of the Working Class

July 22, 2025 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe An eight-day strike by municipal employees in Philadelphia disrupted the operations of one of the largest cities in the United States amid systematic attacks on the interests and status of working people. […]

EVs, batteries, and union organizing: the class struggle heats up

December 31, 2023 fwstaff

By Chris Fry If 2023 was described as having the “summer of strikes” (which stretched into the fall and winter), then 2024 may become known as the “year of union organizing drives”. 2023 saw more […]

Detroit Blue Cross-Blue Shield workers still on strike, Nov. 3, 2023

Detroit “Strike City” Continues as Nearly 5000 Union Members Remain on the Picket Lines

November 7, 2023 fwstaff

By Fighting Words Staff Although the automotive companies, GM, Ford and Stallantis, have signed tentative agreements with the UAW International, thousands of workers still remain on strike at Blue Cross-Blue Shield and the three Detroit […]

Entertainment Strikes Have Profound Economic Impact

August 20, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe There was enormous publicity surrounding the box office revenues generated from the newly released movie “Barbie” during the first two weekends of August. In its second week after release, the corporate and […]

Striking Writers and Actors on the picket line

SAG-AFTRA and WGA Strike Exposes Deteriorating Conditions in the Entertainment Industry

July 19, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe Striking members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Announcers (SAG-AFTRA) along with the Writers Guild of America (WGA), have created a crisis for the Alliance […]

Screen Actors Join Writers in Entertainment Industry Strike

July 19, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe Despite the enormous profits being made by film and television corporations in the United States, the writers, actors and announcers are undergoing pay cuts and threats to their future employment. Since early […]

U.S. Supreme Court again ruled against workers in Glacier Northwest v Teamsters Local 174 case

Supreme Court attacks labor’s right to strike

June 26, 2023 fwstaff

By Chris Fry On June 1, the Supreme Court made another decision eroding the rights of workers to struggle for better pay and working conditions. “Another” is the appropriate word because the Supreme Court, of […]

Fires in the Streets of France Illustrates Anger over Pension Reforms

March 31, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe Discontent with President Emmanuel Macron is mounting in the aftermath of his executive enactment of a controversial pension reform bill that would make substantial changes to the retirement system for millions of […]

British rail workers strike along with many other unions

British Strike Wave Approaches General Strike Levels

January 18, 2023 fwstaff

By Gerry Scopppettuolo Since Britain’s Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) went on strike last June a torrent of working-class anger throughout the United Kingdom has been unleashed that today resembles a general strike across […]

Moranda Smith: An African American Revolutionary Trade Union Leader (1915-1950)

August 15, 2022 fwstaff

By Gerry Scoppettuolo On a hot dusty day in September 1949, 34-year-old Moranda Smith strode bravely down the main street of Apopka, Florida. The Klan was after her and she knew it. The night before, […]

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Philadelphia Municipal Strike Highlights Worsening Plight of the Working Class

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